FEATURE: ‘A New Accra for a Bitter Ghana’ | Features | Peacefmonline.com

FEATURE: ‘A New Accra for a Bitter Ghana’ | Features | Peacefmonline.com:

Ghana suffers from an unemployment rate of 20-percent, according to 2008 World Factbook reports. With a decline in the economic growth rate over the past year, this figure is likely to have risen. Government claims they do not have the revenue needed to support welfare grants such as unemployment insurance, thus making it essential for Ghanaians to generate their own income in any way possible, simply to survive. Speaking to street traders at Kaneshie and around Accra, it becomes evident that trading in the informal sector is often an option of ‘last-resort’.